Milwaukee crime family

The Milwaukee crime family is an American Mafia crime family based in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. The family was founded by Vito Guardalabene in 1918, and it soon became a semi-independent branch of the more powerful Chicago Outfit, which controlled all Italian-American organized crime in the Midwest. The family's most influential boss was Frank Balistrieri (boss from 1961 to 1993), who was greatly involved in the Las Vegas skimming casinos. After Balistrieri's death in 1993, the family was nearly extinct, with the Chicago Outfit gaining control over some of the illegal rackets in the area.